Golden Hour Photography: Settings, Tips & Techniques The window is short. Roughly 20 to 40 minutes after sunrise or before sunset — less in summer at higher latitudes, sometimes longer in winter ne...
Candid Photography Tips: Capture Real, Unposed Moments The camera comes up. Something shifts. Not always — sometimes people don't notice, or don't care. But often enough: the expression closes, the b...
Environmental Portrait Photography: How to Photograph People in Their World Arnold Newman made his portrait of Igor Stravinsky in 1946. Harper's Bazaar had commissioned it — and then rejected it. The art director Alexey ...
Night Photography Tips: Settings, Light & Technique Go out at night with a camera for the first time, and something stops working that worked fine that afternoon. The settings that gave you a clean fra...
Photography That Tells a Story: A Visual Storytelling Guide There's a photograph W. Eugene Smith made in 1948 of Dr. Ernest Ceriani walking toward his surgery in Kremmling, Colorado — a country doctor cr...
Building a Photography Portfolio That Holds Together Photographers who've been shooting for a year or two tend to accumulate work faster than they can evaluate it. They have folders of images — som...